I'm afraid that your "desired solution" can't be achieved in the way indicated in your posts. You need to differentiate between shell functions and shell variables. Confusingly, shells can have variables and functions with the same names. The output
is the result of expanding the LZ variable (defined elsewhere, NOT in the code snippet) but NOT calling the LZ () function. That also explains why there's no three second time increase. As functions return exit codes only, this mechanism can't be used to supply deliberate results. You need to print results to stdout, as drysdalk proposed, or capture them in a "command substitution" in the callers code.
Hi,
Can anyone please let me know the meaning of this line,i am not able to understand the egrep part(egrep '^{1,2}).This will search for this combination in beginning but what does the values in {}signifies here.
/bin/echo $WhenToRun | egrep '^{1,2}:$' >/dev/null (1 Reply)
There is a function called start:
start()
{
echo -n $"Sending Startup Email: "
echo "${RESTARTBODY}" | mutt -s "${RESTARTSUBJECT}" ${EMAIL}
RETVAL=$?
if ; then
touch ${LOCKFILE}
success
else
failure
fi
echo
return ${RETVAL}
}
Can anyone explain what the bold part of the... (3 Replies)
If I don't explain my issue well enough, I apologize ahead of time, extreme newbie here to scripting.
I'm currently learning scripting from books and have moved on to the text Wicked Cool Shell Scripts by Dave Taylor, but there are still basic concepts that I'm having trouble understanding.
... (10 Replies)
i am beginner in shell scripting.
not able to understand what below line will do.
PS1=${HOST:=Žuname -nŽ}"$ " ; export PS1 HOST
below is the script
#!/bin/hash
PS1=${HOST:=Žuname -nŽ}"$ " ; export PS1 HOST ;
echo $PS1
and i getting the below output
Žuname -nŽ$ (25 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm not clear of this regexp command:
regexp {(\S+)\/+$} $String match GetString
From my observation and testing,
if $String is abc/def/gh
$GetString will be abc/def
I don't understand how the /gh in $String got eliminated.
Please help. Thanks (2 Replies)
Hi
i was going through the script debugging technique. below example was given in the book.
1 #!/bin/sh
2
3 Failed() {
4 if ; then
5 echo "Failed. Exiting." ; exit 1 ;
6 fi
7 echo "Done."
8 }
9
10 echo "Deleting old backups,... (11 Replies)
Hello,
I recently started going in depth with the shell, so I started learning from Linux Shell Scripting CookBook, 2nd edition. I am at the first chapter atm, and the author tells to define a function in the ~/.bashrc.
The function is below.
prepend() { && eval $1=\"$2':'\$$1\" && export... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I have many folders under which there is always a file with the same name, which contains the data I need to process later. A perl oneliner was borrowed
perl -e 'print "gene_id\t", join("\t", map {/(.*)\//; $1} @ARGV),"\n";' *_test.trim/level.csvto make a header so that each column... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: yifangt
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endusershell
getusershell(3C) Standard C Library Functions getusershell(3C)NAME
getusershell, setusershell, endusershell - get legal user shells
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
char *getusershell(void);
void setusershell(void);
void endusershell(void);
DESCRIPTION
The getusershell() function returns a pointer to a legal user shell as defined by the system manager in the file /etc/shells. If
/etc/shells does not exist, the following locations of the standard system shells are used in its place:
/bin/bash /bin/csh
/bin/jsh /bin/ksh
/bin/pfcsh /bin/pfksh
/bin/pfsh /bin/sh
/bin/tcsh /bin/zsh
/sbin/jsh /sbin/pfsh
/sbin/sh /usr/bin/bash
/usr/bin/csh /usr/bin/jsh
/usr/bin/ksh /usr/bin/pfcsh
/usr/bin/pfksh /usr/bin/pfsh
/usr/bin/sh /usr/bin/tcsh
/usr/bin/zsh /usr/xpg4/bin/sh
The getusershell() function opens the file /etc/shells, if it exists, and returns the next entry in the list of shells.
The setusershell() function rewinds the file or the list.
The endusershell() function closes the file, frees any memory used by getusershell() and setusershell(), and rewinds the file /etc/shells.
RETURN VALUES
The getusershell() function returns a null pointer on EOF.
BUGS
All information is contained in memory that may be freed with a call to endusershell(), so it must be copied if it is to be saved.
SunOS 5.10 30 Aug 2004 getusershell(3C)